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ὀλιγότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλιγότης ὀλιγότητος

Structure: ὀλιγοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: o)li/gos

Sense

  1. fewness
  2. smallness, scantiness, shortness

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • δεῖ δὲ μὴ πλήθει μηδ’ ὀλιγότητι πραγμάτων, ἀλλὰ τῷ καλῷ καὶ τῷ αἰσχρῷ τὸ εὔθυμον ὁρίζειν καὶ τὸ δύσθυμον· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 2 4:3)
  • δεῖ δὲ μὴ πλήθει μηδ’ ὀλιγότητι πραγμάτων, ἀλλὰ τῷ καλῷ καὶ τῷ αἰσχρῷ τὸ εὔθυμον ὁρίζειν καὶ τὸ δύσθυμον· (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 2 12:1)
  • ἑορτῆσ τε Δήμητροσ εἰσ τάσ ἡμέρασ ἐκείνασ καθηκούσησ βέλτιον ἐφάνη παραλιπεῖν ὅλωσ τάσ τε θυσίασ καὶ τὴν πομπήν ἢ τὸ μέγεθοσ τῆσ συμφορᾶσ ὀλιγότητι καὶ κατηφείᾳ τῶν συνερχομένων ἐλέγχεσθαι· (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 18 2:1)
  • ὅσοι μὲν οὖν οἰόνται πολιτικὸν καὶ βασιλικὸν καὶ οἰκονομικὸν καὶ δεσποτικὸν εἶναι τὸν αὐτὸν οὐ καλῶσ λέγουσιν πλήθει γὰρ καὶ ὀλιγότητι νομίζουσι διαφέρειν ἀλλ’ οὐκ εἴδει τούτων ἕκαστον, οἱο͂ν ἂν μὲν ὀλίγων, δεσπότην, ἂν δὲ πλειόνων, οἰκονόμον, ἂν δ’ ἔτι πλειόνων, πολιτικὸν ἢ βασιλικόν, ὡσ οὐδὲν διαφέρουσαν μεγάλην οἰκίαν ἢ μικρὰν πόλιν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 4:2)
  • Ἀναξιμένησ δὲ ἀέρα καὶ Διογένησ πρότερον ὕδατοσ καὶ μάλιστ’ ἀρχὴν τιθέασι τῶν ἁπλῶν σωμάτων, Ἵππασοσ δὲ πῦρ ὁ Μεταποντῖνοσ καὶ Ἡράκλειτοσ ὁ Ἐφέσιοσ, Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ δὲ τὰ τέτταρα, πρὸσ τοῖσ εἰρημένοισ γῆν προστιθεὶσ τέταρτον ταῦτα γὰρ ἀεὶ διαμένειν καὶ οὐ γίγνεσθαι ἀλλ’ ἢ πλήθει καὶ ὀλιγότητι, συγκρινόμενα καὶ διακρινόμενα εἰσ ἕν τε καὶ ἐξ ἑνόσ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1 66:1)

Synonyms

  1. fewness

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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